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After a full few days of workshops, panels, and committee sessions, clergy and laity packed into the Pacific Ballroom for the first Plenary session of this year’s Clergy-Laity Congress. Patriarchal Representatives Their Eminences Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain and Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, members of the Holy Eparchial Synod, and the auxiliary bishops of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America.